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Thank you for reaching out to us here in the Community, scottandgeoff , QuickBooks Desktop will automatically creates the Retained Earning account once you set up a company file to track profits from earlier periods.

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Hello there, imhoffj .... Let me share how you can access QuickBooks Desktop for Mac on your Macbook.... If you have more than one user licenses, you can set up QuickBooks in multi-user mode so you can access the company files at the same time on the deskto

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@ tleray I use windows so this may not apply to Mac In windows, if the bottom tax field (the one in the summary footer area) is not enabled for print, in customize data layout, then you get the tax line item entry by default.